Editorial

Manuel F. Montes :In discussions at the UN about achieving Agenda 2030, it has become de rigueur to highlight the role of the private sector....

A MINISTER of Myanmar’s State Counsellor Office, U Kyaw Tint Swe, is currently leading talks with Bangladesh, led by our Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali....

WHILE the cost of road construction in Bangladesh is highest in the world, the quality of the roads is quite poor. According to the experts...

Manipadma Jena :(From previous issue)Many city-dwellers in Asia, and in India specifically, particularly men when they migrate alone, have limited time and no place to...

Yousef bin Ahmed Al-Othaimeen :The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), by virtue of its position of being the second largest international organization outside the UN...

Francisco Mingorance. :Companies developing open connectivity standards are under threat from Silicon Valley’s gatekeepers, who are attempting to wrestle away control of these innovative technologies...

TODAY is the Holy Ashura, the day of noble sacrifice of Imam Husein, the grandson of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (SM) on the 10th Muharram...

ABOUT one million electric vehicles, popularly known as Easy Bikes, are running in the streets for transporting 2.5 crore passengers in both townships and rural...

Dealing with beggars Begging is a complex social problem with no quick fix. The way we come across various reports on begging brings out the...

Dr. M. Aminul Islam Akanda :The Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority of Myanmar, has been being pushed out from their homeland for decades. There were...

Miroslav Lajcak :When the Charter of Algiers was adopted 50 years ago, it marked the unity of the Group of 77. This unity has not...

Manipadma Jena :Rapid urbanization is increasingly shifting the impacts of malnutrition from rural to urban areas. One in three stunted under-five children out of 155...